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Date:      Wed, 9 Feb 2000 23:22:23 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading to 4.0
Message-ID:  <20000209232223.A66918@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <200002091950.LAA00645@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>; from Cy Schubert on Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:49:30AM -0800
References:  <200002091950.LAA00645@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>

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On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:49:30AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote:
> Can FreeBSD be upgraded from 3.4-stable to 4.0-current from source.  
> When I installed -current on my testbed I got a number of sig 12's 
> (SIGSYS), e.g. fix one, reiterate, fix the next one, etc., that I 
> finally gave up and installed 4.0-current from snapshot.
> 
> The reason for asking is that I'm installing a console server in 
> Vancouver, a 30 minute flight by helijet from Victoria.  My options are 
> to install -stable and subsequently install 4.1 from source, negating 
> the requirement to travel to Vancouver to perform the installation, or 
> install from CDROM or FTP requiring console access.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
Without providing any in-depth details:

0. `uname -r' returns 3.x
1. make buildworld
2. make buildkernel
3. make installkernel
4. reboot with new kernel in signle-user mode
5. make -DNOINFO installworld
6. make buildkernel installkernel (again)
7. make installworld (again, without -DNOINFO)

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